Investigating long-term semantic priming of middle- and low-familiarity category exemplars

Journal of General Psychology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 453-466

  Ray, Suchismita ^a   Bly, Benjamin Martin ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category exemplar; Lexical decision; Long term semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 37349036491     PISSN: 00221309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/GENP.134.4.453-466     Document Type: Article

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